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Quicklist for Music Player Daemon (MPD) clients

Adds play/pause, previous, next and stop to the launcher of an MPD client (in this case GMPC, but this can easily be adapted for e.g. xfmpc, Sonata, Ario, Pygmy, pympd, Glurp, Gimmix, gbemol or whatever you fancy). The only requirement is that you install the package mpc (sudo apt-get install mpc).

Drag & Drop the gftp.desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications in nautilus to the Unity Launcher Bar

FIRST RUN !!

Click on the "Edit gFTP Bookmarks" menu item and edit your gftp bookmarks file. By default file contains a lot of ftp sites which are not used. Remove unused bookmarks and close the file. Next, click on the "Create Bookmark List" and your list is generated.

List editing is with the same way, at first edit the bookmarks list, next generate the new one.

Wine programs Quicklist

Example with menu items for Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

1. Create custom .desktop file for launcher

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/nautilus-wine.desktop

2. Paste the following code and replace the <username> text to match your home folder username. You need also define variable for each program (variable is after the wine_shortcuts) and then save & close:

3. Create a 'scripts' folder (if it does not exist already) in ~/.local/share/applications folder:

mkdir ~/.local/share/applications/scripts

4. Create the script file wine_shortcuts with gedit:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/scripts/wine_shortcuts

5. Add this text to the file, setup variables used in step 2, open alacarte and get current command prefix for you program (here is posted only example), replace the <command for dreamweaver/photoshop goes here> then save and close:

Save the launcher and put it on the Unity panel in place of the original. Note that to have the Advanced Settings quicklist shortcut to work, the package "gnome-tweak-tool" must be installed (available in the repositories).

Audacious Quicklist

Quicklist for Audacious that allows controlling playback (redundant if using Audacious 3.2+, because you can control it from the Sound Menu), showing and hiding the main window (you can also unhide it by selecting Audacious from the Sound Menu), adding files to the current playlist and jumping to another song in the playlist.

Audacious Headless mode Quicklist

Quicklist for Audacious that allows starting the player in headless mode and shutting it down.

While running in headless mode Audacious can be controlled from the Sound Menu (Audacious 3.2+ only), with the multimedia keys (or other keybindings), from the command line with the audacious and the audtool commands and so on.